Book Summary of Blind Assassin

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The Man Booker Prize Winner 2000

About the Book: The Blind Assassin

Laura Chase's older sister Iris, married at eighteen to a politically
prominent industrialist but now poor and eighty-two, is living in Port
Ticonderoga, a town dominated by their once-prosperous family before the First
War. While coping with her unreliable body, Iris reflects on her far from
exemplary life, in particular the events surrounding her sister's tragic death.
Chief among these was the publication of The Blind Assassin, a novel which
earned the dead Laura Chase not only notoriety but also a devoted cult
following. Sexually explicit for its time, The Blind Assassin describes a risky
affair in the turbulent thirties between a wealthy young woman and a man on the
run. During their secret meetings in rented rooms, the lovers concoct a pulp
fantasy set on Planet Zycron. As the invented story twists through love and
sacrifice and betrayal, so does the real one; while events in both move closer
to war and catastrophe. By turns lyrical, outrageous, formidable, compelling and
funny, this is a novel filled with deep humour and dark drama.

About the Author: Margaret Atwood

Born November 18, 1939, in Ottawa, Canada, Margaret Atwood spent her early
years in the northern Quebec wilderness. Settling in Toronto in 1946, she
continued to spend summers in the northern woods. This experience provided much
of the thematic material for her verse. She began her writing career as a poet,
short story writer, cartoonist, and reviewer for her high school paper. She
received a B.A. from Victoria College, University of Toronto in 1961 and an M.A.
from Radcliff College in 1962. Atwood's first book of verse, Double Persephone,
was published in 1961 and was awarded the E. J. Pratt Medal. She has published
numerous books of poetry, novels, story collections, critical work, juvenile
work, and radio and teleplays. Her works include The Journals of Susanna Moodie
(1970), Power Politics (1971), Cat's Eye (1986), The Robber Bride (1993),
Morning in the Buried House (1995), and Alias Grace (1996). Many of her works
focus on women's issues. She has won numerous awards for her poetry and fiction
including the Prince of Asturias award for Literature, the Booker Prize, the
Governor General's Award in 1966 for The Circle Game and in 1986 for The
Handmaid's Tale, which also won the Arthur C. Clarke Award.

Details Of Book :
Blind Assassin

Book:

Blind Assassin

Author:

Margaret Atwood

ISBN:

1860498809

ISBN-13:

9781860498800

Binding:

Paper Back

Publishing Date:

2001-09-03

Publisher:

Little Brown & Company

Language:

English

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